Running-gear for wagons



' (No Model.)

J. GOPPLE.

RUNNING GEAR FOR WAGONS.

No. 317,515. v Patented M8112, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN OOPPLE, OF SIBLEY, IOWA.

RUNNING-GEAR FOR WAGONSL SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,515, dated May 12, 1885.

' Application filed October 17, 1884v (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J oHN (JorPLE, of Sibley, in the county of Osceola and State of Iowa, have invented an Im roved Running- Gear for \Vagons, of which the following is a specification.

The special object of the invention is to improve that class of wagons whose reaches are adjustable so as to support material of varying lengths. In lumber or other wagons of this character the hounds are subject to great strain of a lateral kind, and thus work loose in their bearin gs between the bolster and axle. I obviate this difficulty by arranging two parallel bars rigidly on the inside of the hounds and extending them beyond the hounds so as to support the front ends of the latter. I also prevent the coupling-bolt from being bent, and made inconvenient for use, by dividing the strain between the bolt and auxiliary plates on the parallel bars and the reach.

Figure l of the drawings is a plan view of the rear part of a running-gear, showing the position of the reach when a box-body is to be used, and Fig. 2 is a similar View, showingits position when extended for use 7 in hauling lumber or other long mater ial. Fig. 3 is a central section through bolt G.

In the drawings, A represents the axle, B the bolster, O O the hounds, and D the reach.

Between each hound O and the reach D, I arrange a rigid re-enforcing'bar, E, extending from the hindmost axle, A, of a running-gear, outbeyond thefront ends of the hounds. These bars E E are parallel to one another and to the reach, are held apart by the axle at one end, and rendered immovable at the other end by two metallic cross-plates, FF, so as to firmly support the front ends of the bounds and thus prevent them from working in their axle-bearing. This also allows of a greater extension than usual where very long lumber or other material is to be carried. The reaehl) is provided at its rear end with top and bottom horizontal plates, (1 01, made fast thereto, and which, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, meets the corresponding edges of the plates F F, while a plate-hole, d,is made to correspond in position with the reach-holes ff, in order to receive a coupling-bolt, Gr. It will thus be perceived that the draft-strain is divided, one part being taken by the bolt and the other by' the plates.

Haviu g thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the axle, bolster, hounds, and reach, of the interior parallel extension-bars, E E, the middle perforated crossplates, F F, on the ends of said parallel bars, and the plates d d on the rear end of reach, all constructed and arranged as shown and described.

JOHN GOPPLE. &

Witnesses:

D. 1). MoGALLUM, D. L. MGOAUSLAND. 

